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Your result for The "Ten Most Famous Tori Amos songs" Personality Quiz...

"Winter"

You scored 45% on Family!


“When you gonna make up your mind? When you gonna love you as much as I do? When you gonna make up your mind? Cause things are gonna change so fast, All the white horses are still in bed. I tell you that I’ll always want you near, You say that “things change, my dear”. Hair is gray and the fire is burning, So many dreams on the shelf. You say I wanted you to be proud of me I always wanted that myself.”



THE MUSIC: According to the Music Genome Project, the song features mellow rock instrumentation, a subtle use of vocal harmony, a prominent rhythm piano part, intricate melodic phrasing, acoustic sonority, minor key tonality, string section beds, melodic songwriting, a breathy female lead vocalist and the subtle use of a horn section.



THE FACTS: "Winter" was the second song to be released as a single, in 1992, from Tori Amos' debut solo album, Little Earthquakes. The song also appears on Amos' 2003 compilation, Tales of a Librarian. The song was written about Amos's relationship with her father, who is a minister. The song reached the 25th position in the US singles chart. Says Tori of the song: "Summoned to the piano, this Russian music box round played me over and over till I was wrapped in a blanket with the memory of cinnamon apples on my tongue and boys that didn't 'We.' Went back to where I felt no time - it was all happening again, presently." The video is simple and stark, alternating between Tori dancing with a group of children and Tori dressed in white, in a white room, playing a white piano. When interviewed, the director stated that Tori’s bell-bottom look in the video “was just to do with the nostalgia, because "Winter" is about her father. It's a nostalgic song and certainly that's the way I interpreted it, so that it would look timeless. It does look a bit timeless, that video. It could have been shot at the same time as Sesame Street. It has a Sesame Street feel to me. It's very simple.”



YOU are Tori’s ‘father complex’ ode. While this does not necessarily mean you have an unhealthy fixation for your father, it does entail that you are generally a sentimental and nostalgic nature, who longs for some form of lost innocence. Perhaps you truly had a very happy childhood; perhaps you were very sheltered as a child. You felt secure, you were well-provided for and this has left you with a deep connection with your family. In your view, they did the very best they could in raising you and, in your mind, you’ve ‘painted over’ the ugly parts. At the same time, in the adult world, you occasionally experience a sense of inadequacy. You might feel that the grown-up society is unfair and cruel or simply that it’s not all it’s cracked up to be. This stems from the fact that you idealize your parental figure(s) – they are the pinnacle of your moral scale and you feel you could never live up to their achievements and (implied or expressed) expectations of you. This, in turn, often prompts you to procrastinate. You dread failure and this fear might paralyze you and render you unable to act. Your ‘safe place’, which you escape into when you need to cope with hardship, is most likely to be a dream-world which you’ve been building ever since your early childhood. Family is probably the most important thing to you. You like children and are likely to want some of your own (in case you don’t already). Both as a parent and a partner, you will devote yourself to your family to the point of abandonment. This type of behavior tends to slip into smothering, which is likely to have already driven some potential partners away by now. You are not very comfortable with the thought of your own mortality and tend to avoid thinking about growing old.


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Compared to other takers

* 72/100 You scored 34% on Compromise, higher than 72% of your peers.
* 78/100 You scored 43% on Romance, higher than 78% of your peers.
* 11/100 You scored 27% on Rage, higher than 11% of your peers.
* 15/100 You scored 29% on Straightforwardness, higher than 15% of your peers.
* 66/100 You scored 37% on Guilt, higher than 66% of your peers.
* 91/100 You scored 45% on Family, higher than 91% of your peers.
* 9/100 You scored 21% on Unconventional, higher than 9% of your peers.
* 7/100 You scored 23% on Expression, higher than 7% of your peers.
* 4/100 You scored 17% on Assertiveness, higher than 4% of your peers.
* 54/100 You scored 32% on Purity, higher than 54% of your peers.


Date: 2009-06-17 12:17 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] unico-love.livejournal.com
It was supposed to say "computer desk.":-)

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